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This is absolutely beautiful! Scored with so much passion - love it.

Hi everyone, thanks for your comments and good wishes. My verses at the end of the score are written in Catalan, my mother tonge. It is spoken in a region of Spain sorrounding Barcelona.

That's a captivating and dramatic piece. I feel a state restless agitation is present all through the movement. Thanks for posting!

Very nice and congratulations! The piece is surprisingly seamless for a classical-era improvisation. It is very sweet and pleasing to the ear. Thanks for sharing!

I've been busy these last two weeks and I have a few short pieces I'm working on. This piece I've called a German dance although I did set out to compose a minuet. I took a risk with the B section cadence of the first section because I used a pedal point in the low register which sounds a little muddy. I composed an alternative but I wondered what others might think. The trio is a bit generic I think, I really struggle with ideas for the trio sections. I will do a bit of research to better understand the balance between variety and unity of the minuet and its trio.

An experimental piece. I used galant schemas but used weird chromaticism with diverging lines in places. I dont know if it works but its fun.

Im inspired by all three great classical composers; Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. They all composed German dances in their own styles. I particularly like Beethoven's dances. Schubert is king of the short form in my opinion though but im resisting his influence at the moment because my harmony knowledge is still growing and I want to assimilate the classical language first.

I appreciate your feedback. I think i will re-record the piece with a few changes I've made to the score. I know what you mean about repeat marks. It was the practice in the 18th century to vary the repeats and its a skill I want to learn to make my performance of my work more authentic to the period and more interesting.

I added a trio to the minuet i composed recently. I found recording myself playing gave me performance anxiety and caused continuous mistakes. It was quite frustrating but I managed to get a somewhat decent recording with only a couple of minor mistakes. The minuet is Haydnesque but I experimented with the trio. I used doubled thirds to sound like a trumpet fanfare which is answered by the strings. A back and forth ensues which leads to a waltz like dance over a tonic pedal. I bought a book of minuet and trios recently by Haydn. In the first two minuet and trios of the book Haydn keeps the same key throughout the minuet and trio which i thought was unusual but uses tonicisations to add colour. I did the same and modulated briefly from F major to G minor in the B section of the trio rather than the relative minor to add more tension with the A section trumpet motif. I'm not 100% sure the trio works but I spent hours at the piano trying out many different approaches to create something new. In the score, one thing to note that bars 4 and 17 have two accidentals that are overlapping which obscures what they are, a B natural and an A flat.

Any feedback would be appreciated. I dont know whether the piece works.

I found out my wife is pregnant and I felt uncomfortably happy. I'm autistic and find strong emotions overwhelming so I improvised on the piano to help relieve the pressure of the emotion and i was pleased with the theme I came up with so I thought I'd share it on here. Improv for frank-705.MP3

This is my third small form I've composed at the piano. I composed it as a minuet and trio but more in the style found in a piano sonata. I encountered a problem when I began composing the trio, it begins on a weak beat unlike the minuet which begins on the first beat of the bar. I wasn't sure if this was in the style but after looking at a set of minuets by Mozart I found one that begins anacrusically but the trio begins on the first beat of the bar. I guess the minuet is just regarded as a separate piece of music attached to the minuet. Usually I think of minor keys when creating music thats quiet, introspective and sad but I know major keys can also create the effect. I wonder whether you can hear the play between hope and sadness in this piece.